Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor’s homosexual romance drama The Historical past of Sound has a launch window. (Getty/Canva)
Followers of Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor are set to be disenchanted: it seems the discharge date for the pair’s new historic queer romance drama, The Historical past of Sound, is lots additional away than hoped.
Josh O’Connor, seen just lately in Challengers, is ready to seem as David, a person dwelling via World Struggle I, in The Historical past of Sound. His life will probably be “deeply modified” when he meets Lionel, performed by Gladiators star Mescal.
Oliver Hermanus, who just lately directed three episodes of Nicholas Galitzine’s homosexual historic drama Mary & George, is within the director’s chair once more, however has issued an replace on the discharge date that can shatter the hearts of these on the Mescal-O’Connor thirst practice.
“Venice requested for it but it surely’s not prepared,” Hermanus informed AwardsWatch, referring to the 2024 Venice Movie Competition which hits the town in September.
He’s hoping his film will premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition, which takes place in Could. So, followers have roughly a 12 months to attend simply to learn the primary evaluations – and it received’t open in cinemas till in the direction of the tip of 2025.
The information is especially disappointing on condition that the drama was first introduced in 2021, and it has already skilled a sequence of delays. However for many who like to listen to handsome superstar males singing, there’s a silver lining.
“We now have a number of rating to create, Paul and Josh sing in it, and it’s all about sound,” Hermanus mentioned.
The movie follows the younger males as they “got down to report the lives, voices and music of their countrymen” – therefore the singing – and fall in love alongside the way in which.
“On this snatched, short-lived second of their younger lives, and whereas discovering the epic sweep of the US, each males are deeply modified,” reads one synopsis.
O’Connor and Mescal have been noticed filming the film earlier this 12 months, with each seen carrying flat caps, shirts, ties and waistcoats.
On the time, Hermanus teased that the actors have been “on hearth” whereas filming.
O’Connor is likely to be best-known for his flip as Prince Charles in The Crown, however he’s additionally turn out to be fairly established for enjoying LGBTQ+ roles, together with in steamy bisexual tennis romp Challengers, gays-on-the-farm movie God’s Personal Nation, and in a small half in Cillian Murphy’s Peaky Blinders.
Mescal has additionally performed homosexual, in Andrew Haigh’s heartbreaking romance All of Us Strangers earlier this 12 months.